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In Chicago everyone calls the United Center āThe UCā. I guess now PNC is āThe LCā?
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will prevail over Rebels.
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I like that Lenovoās logo is red like both teams that play there.
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Can we nickname the Lenovo Center the āThink Padā? We call the Spectrum Center in Charlotte the Cable Box and the stadium the Bank.
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the rinkpad! (characters)
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Agreed. When it was still named the RBC Center, the court at State MBB games had a massive blue sticker on it with the yellow/white RBC text. Looked awful. PNC was at least an all black logo, but the Lenovo branding will fit much better for both the Canes and State.
Unrelated - but I do an every few months post on the Red & White Network for developments / changes going on around NCSUās campus & the surrounding area. Wrote up something here that was published yesterday that primarily focuses on the Lenovo Center renovations/development and the Doak Field renovations. Itās lengthy, but tried to summarize all of the details that came out last week.
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https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article292448939.html?tbref=hp
This guy calls out what many of us knowā¦Raleigh screwed up not puttinf the arena downtown & developing around PNC is not going to help.
Maybe someone will listen to this guys & perhaps we will get a soccer stadium approvedā¦in a decade
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The same guy that thinks we can have a waterway connecting downtown to Dix?
We can all agree the the arena should have been built downtown 25 years ago. But it wasnāt. That horse has been beat to death long ago.
Soccer stadium in DTS would be great, though. But weāll get an MLB team before MLS the way things are going.
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We donāt need āMLSā. The teams we have are fine. Louisville built a downtown stadium for their teamā¦in the same division as NCFC.
https://lynnfamilystadium.com/
MLS is a pyramid scheme anyway. The league NCFC plays in could beat 1/2 if not more of the MLS teams.
MLB is way offā¦
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Iād love to see an expandable soccer stadium 10-15k (expandable to 20k) and a 45k seat MLB stadium in DS. I assume that thereās enough space but, Iām no expert.
Obviously there will be less vacant and developable land but I think having two stadiums downtown would be great.
Crucial task for this: the acknowledgment from Kane and Dundon that parking decks existā¦ we donāt need anymore stadiums surrounded by miles of parking.
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MLS needs to implement promotion / delegation to the league like the European leagues. But thatās entirely different discussion.
Iād be fine with a smaller soccer stadium now that is expandable if/ when we get an MLs team.
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We already have that in WakeMed Soccer Park.
Iād love that too, but I am afraid at $300m+ for a franchise that ship has sailed.
Ooh I hope we can have a long discussion about the merits of baseball vs soccer again! Itās been too longā¦
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Dudeā¦ give it a rest. For everybody, please.
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There a serious threat to us. Heed this warning, and I want you to screenshot this, because Iām gonna be right in my prediction. The NWSL is in trouble in my opinion, and it will affect NC Courage. Reason 1 is because NWSL got rid of there draft thatās a bold move. If NWSL fails I can see a merger and if that happens NC Courage will be relegated from division 1 to 2 (in a new league) becasue attendance at Courage games are low, Further attesting that this area really doesnāt support soccer. I think your boy Steve Malik has his hands tied @UncleJesse , he should worry about attendance than some soccer stadium in downtown South. If a relatively new team in NC that is in a relatively new womenās soccer league has better showups than the existing one, that shows something. Baseball may be our hope though my excitement for that is down.
I donāt think this new league is that big of an existential threat to the Courage. Not as big of a threat as the Courage are to themselves.
When all is said and done, youāre right that thereās likely a merger, and some of those teams drop to a second league. But itās more likely to be Spokane, Lexington, and some of the other smaller clubs incoming.
But the courageās problem is more that they canāt stop shooting themselves in the foot. Two terrible PR moves and a stadium that is close to nobody and has 0 amenities (and isnāt even a cheap day out). Agreed that Malik should worry more about attendance, but I think that goes hand in hand with the stadium issue.
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Truth. I like soccer, and am happy to support womenās sports (NC State womenās tennis is a great afternoon out, and the players are incredible - one of them made the US Open quarters), but itās hard to get excited about schleping out to a rec league field in Cary.
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Fenton is literally right there. There are more amenities there than there will be at a new stadium at a non existent Downtown South.
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